Academy Sports' Wolfchase deal in home stretch

A shopping center near the Wolfchase Galleria could soon be home to the Memphis area's second Academy Sports + Outdoors store.

Brixmor Property Group, owner of the Commons at Wolfcreek at the Germantown Parkway exit off Interstate 40, has filed a $750,000 permit to demolish the former Value City Furniture building at 7930 Giacosa Place.

The demolition would make way for a 73,602-square-foot building for Texas-based Academy, according to the retailer's real estate broker, Lizz Kabat of Nashville-based Kabat Real Estate Solutions.

Brixmor still has some conditions to meet before a lease is cemented, and Academy has yet to determine an opening date, Kabat said.

Brixmor's Gil Consuegra represented his firm in the lease negotiations.